Chapter 31: Heavens’ Foundation Establishment

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Cultivating two Foundation Establishment Stage cultivation techniques at the same time was a sudden thought that Lu Yuan had after coming to the Scripture Pavilion and finding the Nine Guard Tortoiseshell Technique and the Breeze Mystical Scripture.

Originally, his goal in coming here was to choose a suitable Foundation Establishment Stage cultivation technique, then a divine ability that could save his life.

However, his plans could not keep up with the changes. When Lu Yuan discovered that there were two Foundation Establishment Stage cultivation techniques that were very suitable for him, he changed his mind on the spot.

After all, divine abilities could be understood as active skills. Although Lu Yuan lacked them, they were not very important.

This was because, for the steady Lu Yuan who was determined to hide in the sect until he reached the maximum level before coming out, active skills were good, but they weren’t very useful. Most of the time, he had no use for them.

It was a different story for passive skills like cultivation techniques.

There was still the possibility of not being able to use an active skill, but that was not the case for a passive skill.

If he could successfully cultivate an invincible defensive cultivation technique like the “Nine Guard Tortoiseshell Technique”, his safety would be greatly improved.

Between passively saving his life and actively attacking, Lu Yuan did not hesitate to choose the former!

After understanding Lu Yuan’s request, the disciple of the Scripture Pavilion at the side released the restrictions of these two cultivation techniques speechlessly.

As there was a time limit of three incense sticks, Lu Yuan had to race against time to memorize the contents of the cultivation techniques.

The rule of limiting the time to the time it took three incense sticks to burn was made by the Qingyun Sect to prevent some disciples from staying in the Scripture Pavilion for a long time.

Once the disciples stayed in the Scripture Pavilion for a long time, there might be many more variables.

After all, although the restrictions on these cultivation techniques and divine abilities were exquisite, there was no guarantee that someone would be able to break them.

When it came to guarding the sect’s important assets, the Qingyun Sect was simply once bitten, twice shy.

It knew how to take preventive measures before things happened and developed protective measures first.

Fortunately, the contents of these two cultivation techniques were not complicated.

In less than the time it took three incense sticks to burn, Lu Yuan had memorized everything.

However, he was dumbfounded when he found out about the description of the Foundation Establishment Stage spiritual roots in the cultivation techniques.

This was because the so-called Foundation Establishment Stage spiritual roots were divided into three types: Foundation Establishment through the way of the heavens, Foundation Establishment through the way of the earth, and Foundation Establishment through the way of humans!

Moreover, compared to the spiritual roots of Foundation Establishment through the way of humans, the spiritual roots of Foundation Establishment through the way of the heavens were much more powerful in terms of both the stored spiritual energy and the enhancement of specific attributes.

It was many times stronger than a human path Foundation Establishment spiritual root!

Lu Yuan had thought that since he had already cultivated to the Foundation Establishment stage, as long as he chose a suitable cultivation technique, he could break through on the spot.

But now, it seemed that he could not rush to break through.

He didn’t know about “Foundation Establishment through the way of the heavens” before, but now that he did, Lu Yuan would definitely think of a way to do so.

The system seemed to know Lu Yuan’s thoughts. Soon, the sub-categories for the breakthrough of his spiritual roots appeared on his attribute interface.

[Spiritual root (metal, wood, water, fire, earth)]

[Cultivation Rate: 100%]

[Total Spiritual Root Aptitude: 240 points]

[Foundation Establishment through the way of humans success rate: 60% (+)]

[Foundation Establishment through the way of the earth success rate: 35.2% (+)]

[Foundation Establishment through the way of heavens success rate: 4.8% (+)]

[Cultivation Technique Bonus: None]

[Distributable Luck: 700 points]

Although the system did not display the success rate of each spiritual root’s breakthrough, it was because the success rate of each of Lu Yuan’s spiritual roots’ breakthroughs was the same.

Only when he decided to advance a specific spiritual root into the Foundation Establishment Stage would he see the specific success rate of that spiritual root’s breakthrough.

The success rate of these spiritual roots’ breakthroughs was 60% for Foundation Establishment through the way of humans, 35% for Foundation Establishment through the way of the earth, and 4.8% for Foundation Establishment through the way of the heavens.

A measly 5% success rate of Foundation Establishment through the way of the heavens was undeniably impossible.

Only with a success rate of 98% would Lu Yuan feel slightly relieved.

He did not think that he would be so lucky to succeed with a success rate of less than 10%.

Furthermore, according to the explanation in the Foundation Establishment Stage cultivation techniques, the aptitude of a single spiritual root would affect the quality of the condensed spiritual root.

For example, Lu Yuan’s total spiritual root aptitude was now 240 points. If it was evenly distributed, the fire spiritual root would be allocated 48 points.

This aptitude converted with the success rate of Foundation Establishment through the way of the heavens was only 4.8%.

In theory, if one’s fire spiritual root could reach 1000 points, the success rate of him achieving Foundation Establishment through the way of the heavens for his fire spiritual root would be 100%.

From this, one could see how difficult it was to achieve Foundation Establishment through the way of the heavens.

This was because it was rare to see someone with a total spiritual root aptitude of over 100 points, let alone a single spiritual root aptitude of over 1000 points.

That was almost a few dozen times more talented than a normal person.

After all, a normal person’s single spiritual root aptitude would not be able to reach 100 points. It would usually only be a few dozen points.

At least in the current Qingyun Sect, Lu Yuan had never heard of anyone whose single spiritual root had broken through 1000 points.

Even Mu Qiqi, the renowned genius of the sect, only had 300 points for her wood spiritual root aptitude and 260 points for her water spiritual root aptitude.

Even so, she was still a rare genius in Qingyun Sect.

One could only imagine how difficult it was to achieve Foundation Establishment through the way of the heavens.

After understanding this, Lu Yuan finally understood why no one had told him about Foundation Establishment through the way of the heavens.

Spiritual root aptitudes were largely determined during birth.

Even if the average person knew about Foundation Establishment through the way of the heavens, there was nothing they could do except be more annoyed by the fact they couldn’t achieve it…

But was Lu Yuan an ordinary person? Obviously not!

Ordinary people might not be able to control their success rate in Foundation Establishment through the way of the heavens, but Lu Yuan, who had the skill system, had a way.

Whether it was his luck talent, Destined Lucky Star, or his ability to know the success rate of his Foundation Establishment through the way of the heavens, both were very helpful assistance that could help him achieve Foundation Establishment through the way of the heavens.

Thinking of this, Lu Yuan was no longer in a hurry to start condensing his Foundation Establishment Stage spiritual root.

He was going to go back and make a good plan. He was going to first increase the success rate of him achieving Foundation Establishment through the way of the heavens!

As long as one of his spiritual roots was successful, Lu Yuan was confident that he would be able to make all six spiritual roots achieve Foundation Establishment through the way of the heavens!

That’s right, all six spiritual roots!

At this moment, Lu Yuan’s plans already included the acquired wind spiritual root he would need to cultivate the Breeze Mystical Scripture.

The reason why he was so obsessed with Foundation Establishment through the way of the heavens was not that he had OCD.

Rather, it was due to the difference between Foundation Establishment through the way of the heavens and Foundation Establishment through the way of humans. It was not an exaggeration to say that the difference was like heaven and earth.

If he could reach achieve Foundation Establishment through the way of the heavens for the “Nine Guard Tortoiseshell Technique” and “Breeze Mystical Scripture”, wouldn’t that be equivalent to obtaining super strong defense and extreme escape speed?

At that time, even Core Formation Stage cultivators wouldn’t be able to do anything to him, let alone cultivators of the same cultivation stage.

What was this? This was stability!

[Ding! You’ve studied the Nine Guard Tortoiseshell Technique (Foundation Establishment chapter) seriously. You have obtained a new cultivation technique, the Nine Guard Tortoiseshell Technique.]

[Nine Guard Tortoiseshell Technique (level 1): 0/1000]

…

[Ding! You’ve studied the Breeze Mystical Scripture (Foundation Establishment chapter) seriously. You’ve obtained a new cultivation technique, the Breeze Mystical Scripture.]

[Breeze Mystical Scripture (level 1, Foundation Establishment chapter): 0/1000]

After confirming that he had obtained the skills of these two cultivation techniques, Lu Yuan bade farewell to the Scripture Pavilion disciple and left.

…

The first thing Lu Yuan did after returning to his confinement room in the back mountain was to figure out how to increase his success rate of achieving Foundation Establishment through the way of the heavens.

At present, he had three methods to do so.

The first method was to increase his luck value.

There was no need to say more about this. Lu Yuan was already very clear about the use of his luck talent, Destined Lucky Star.

The second method was to increase the aptitude of his spiritual roots.

Currently, Lu Yuan’s total spiritual root aptitude was 240 points. The effect of the ordinary marrow-cleansing pill on his spiritual root aptitude had yet to reach its limit.

Lu Yuan estimated that the ordinary marrow-cleansing pill could raise his total aptitude to 250 points and above. As for the exact figure, he was not sure either.

Above the ordinary marrow-cleansing pill was the perfect marrow-cleansing pill.

Lu Yuan felt that if he had a perfect marrow-cleansing pill, it might be able to raise his spiritual root aptitude to 400 points and above.

If that were the case, his success rate of achieving Foundation Establishment through the way of the heavens would be even higher.

Currently, he had long mastered the method of refining the marrow-cleansing pill, but he had not had the time to refine it.

As for the third method, it was something Lu Yuan had found in the two Foundation Establishment Stage cultivation techniques.

There were some specific heavenly treasures that could increase his success rate of Foundation Establishment through the way of the heavens.

For example, if he wanted to increase the success rate of achieving Foundation Establishment through the way of the heavens for the Nine Guard Tortoiseshell Technique, a thousand-year-old black tortoise’s shell would be enough.

Unfortunately, as an ancient demonic beast, the black tortoise was hard to encounter.

That being said, although it was not easy to find a black tortoise, many magic items and magic instruments were made from it.

As long as he could find a magic item or a magic instrument made of the black tortoise, he would be able to achieve the same result.